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Dominique Strauss-Kahn would have made a better president than hapless Hollande

Charles Dickens might have coined the name of the barrister who pleaded before
the judges of the 17th chamber of the Paris law courts. Maître Christophe
Bigot was arguing the case of a writer who had kissed and told on a powerful
man. “Perhaps it is a matter of indifference that a president of the
Republic spends his soirées in sex clubs, but that is nevertheless a matter
which merits discussion,” said Mr Bigot.

The head of state in question was not François Hollande, who has surely never
set foot in une boîte échangiste, but Dominique
Strauss-Kahn, the sulphurous would-be